Very soon! gone will be days of glittering gizmos mobile sets presently held up as very advanced ones as ultra modern 3G technology has ushered worldwide. The same change is knocking at Indian doors shortly. So think twice if you are pondering over the idea of buying some PDA phone, instead wait a little more - for surprise in the form of latest world class, state- of- art 3G Technology. Good news is that 3G technology is going to be launched in India by mid of December this year.
What is 3G
3G Mobile technology is system of 3rd generation of mobile communication, very high in quality and standard of data transmission. It is based on standards set under International Mobile Telecommunication Programme (IMT-2000).
How Better
The services that arte provided in cellular mobile phones through 3G technology are Wireless Net Telephony, Video calls, high quality reception and broadband wireless data exchange.3G mobiles are offering much greater network capacity and improved spectral efficiency than the prevalent systems.
Unlike Wi-Fi or WLAN (IEEE 802.11 ) networks, presently known as advanced ones 3G networks are wide area cellular telephone networks with a increased capacity to incorporate high-speed internet and video telephony. WIFI system which is also used in laptops and other gadgets has short range, and low bandwidth networks as compared to newer 3-G system of telecommunication. In advent of 3G cellular mobile systemic is going to take over the prevalent system and shall make the same obsolete by the mid of this century.
How Different from CDMA and GPRS Systems
2G system started way back in 1990 ,it included CDMA and GSM .While GPRS system started in mid nineties is also known as 2.5G Technology which paved way for 3G Technology.
*GPRS system can provide data speed up to 114 Kbps 3G system has a data speed of up to 14.4Mb per second.
*Flexibility to use mobile phone for all purposes (cellular, e-mail, paging, Fax, video conferencing and web browsing).
*Roaming capacity within a Europe, North America.
*Extremely enhanced multimedia service of various forms of audio, video and textual data with greater bandwidth.
*Can be used everywhere over the earth indoor or outdoor, including official, non-official and personal purposes.
Countries Adopting 3G
Japan was the first country to introduce 3G nationally in 2006 followed by Korea. the first commercial network in Europe for business was started by Telenor in December 2001 .China is planning to start its own Chinese 3G standard.
In December 2007, 190 3G networks were operating in 40 countries
3G in India
There is great potential for 3-G mobile technology in India; it is fast growing economy with mobile telephony increasing by leaps and bounds.
State-owned Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has already floated a tender to initiate four million lines of 3G equipments in India. Even TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) – the agency watching over the activity of telecom companies has given its consent for the same by mid-December this year.
Market leader company-Airtel is surveying the market to judge capacity and feasibility.. By the end of next year, there could well be two operators in 3G sector in the country. European companies have fervently started their efforts to hold their pie in the spread of 3G technology in Indian sub-continent. This shall further augment the steps taken by consecutive governments of the country to fill the communication gap prevalent between urban and rural parts of India in some states and bolster the Net penetration especially in rural areas.
